Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Evolution of Communication in the 19th Century
Within the 19th century there's this ground so all of social urgency that came around the day that, hey, having a letter and articulate population in general is a good thing. So it was at the point when speech was both becoming an increased econ, econ, economic resource for the first time. Even though fordism has been gone anywhere in some ways it's been expanded in a post force economy where we can think about these gig workers like Uber drivers or freelance copy letters.
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